COMMUNITY TO COMMUNITY: POLICY EQUITY FOR ALL
FOR FACULTY
Societal impact occurs when academics partner with practitioners to apply their knowledge to the most pressing policy issues in their communities—bridging the gap between knowledge and practice.
We are here to support you conceptualize, incubate, and accelerate community-engaged research projects in partnership with a city agency, state department, or community-based organization with the goal of using research evidence to change a policy or practice.
Explore our model, training opportunities, and funding intitiatives below.
Our Engage-Think-Do Model
We believe in the power of research-practice partnerships to develop solutions for intractable problems.
Change occurs when practitioners closest to the real-world problems partner with academics to apply their knowledge to the most pressing policy issues in communities—bridging the gap between knowledge and practice.
Trainings
City to City has partnered with the Scholars Strategy Network to provide training for faculty seeking to form research-practice partnerships with a city agency, state department, or community-based organization.
Research Seed Grant Competition
C2C is inviting applications for research seed grants for projects that begin during summer 2024. The grants will support Northeastern faculty, post-doctoral students, or PhD students engaging in research-practice partnerships to conduct research with a city agency, state department, or community-based organization with the goal of using research evidence to change a policy or practice.
Faculty Policy Fellow Program
C2C is inviting applications for Policy Fellows for projects that begin during summer 2024. The grants will support Northeastern faculty engaging in research-practice partnerships to conduct research with a city agency, state department, or community-based organization with the goal of using research evidence to change a policy or practice.
Become a C2C Faculty Affiliate
C2C Faculty Affiliates are Northeastern University faculty and/or researchers who conduct rigorous research and apply practical methods toward finding equitable solutions to local policy problems at one or more cities and regions across the global university system in applied policy areas such as crime, education, health, housing, public health, transportation, urban/regional development, and workforce development.
Connect to a Practitioner
Universities have the expertise to design and implement smart solutions, yet these local policy challenges do not fit neatly into disciplines nor semesters, so faculty need to work collaboratively across areas and in real-time with policymakers and communities.